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My First Poetry Book is Now Available for Discounted Pre-Order!!!!

Exciting News: my first poetry book, from unincorporated territory, is now available for discounted pre-order fromTinfish Press!!! The book weighs in at about 100 pages and is beautifully designed by Sumet (Ben) Viwatmanitsakul.

The book will retail for $15; Tinfish is offering a pre-publication price of $10 until September 1. You can purchase via my very own Tinfish page (after clicking purchase, scroll down to number 54, which is my book as it’s listed on the checkout page.

If you do not want to use the website, please send checks to Tinfish Press, 47-728 Hui Kelu Street #9, Kane`ohe, HI 96744.

Also, I’m in the beginning stages of planning a reading tour in the fall and spring so if you have a reading series please let me know.

I hope you will support Tinfish Press and that you will enjoy the book 😉

Sincerely,Craig Santos Perez

p.s. please help me spread the word

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Dig the Blurbs:

The act of remembering is the art of recovery, and theart of reclaiming a past that has never been hiddenonly silenced is an act of responsibility. Craig SantosPerez has arrived to give voice and meaning to theunheralded narratives with his fierce debut fromunincorporated territory. At once a palimpsest and anarchive of “retrievable history,” this book of poems issure to place Guam on both the literary and geographicalmaps. This poet of consciousness, of communal memory,and of political fury, has undone the callous erasure ofimperialism and empowered his people’s folklore, storiesand journeys. Craig Santos Perez is a poet with a mission,and with the skill and battle cry to do it right.

~Rigoberto González~

Perez’s deft firstbook delivers a Guam outside the storyof the ‘nation’, reminding us who and what is ‘from’his island through the biography of touch, and theintermingled military and colonialist histories brought tothe Chamorro people from far across the ocean.

~Robert Sullivan~

In Craig Santos Perez’s from unincorporated territorywe hear the movement of the Pacific Ocean; turningeach page we hear the oars of the people navigatingthis ocean. This is a smart, formalistically rigorous, andunapologetically political collection of poetry. Personal,tender, and tough, Perez’s poems, collages of text andimages offer a necessary critical, historical perspective onAmerican ownership, Western tourism, and simultaneouserasure of the island of Guam. from unincorporatedterritory rejects the blank space on American maps and inAmerican consciousness.

Congratulations che’lu. I have a copy of your thesis, but I’m still gonna pick this up. I’m also gonna recommend it to some of my friends who have been looking for Pacific/Chamorro creative writing for their classes.

rec’d ‘from unincorporated territory’ yesterday…it’s a burned square, the one tile the building cannot hold…it’s a raft of commonplace drift…heard jorie graham and bin ramke, but only as echoes, as ghost applause…get it, but most of all, have it.